GALLAGHER, John
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Rank:
Acting Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
King's Regiment (Liverpool)
Service:
Army
Number:
3768318
P.O.W. number:
18741
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Saturday, April 11, 1914
Birthplace:
Liverpool, Lancashire
Operations:
Acting Lance Sergeant John Gallagher, 4 Troop, was one of the commando contingent embarked on motor launch ML 306 for the raid at St Nazaire on 28 March 1942. Wounded and taken prisoner of war.
Sources
St Nazaire Society website.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives file WO417/43, WO417/48, WO417/93.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/132/157.
Obituaries Commando Association newsletter 93 issued 1991.
Notes
The rank of this man is assumed as an acting rank as it differs in all of the sources above from Private (Casualty Lists) ; Lance Corporal (CA Newsletter); Corporal (Both POW records); Lance Sergeant (St Nazaire Society).
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